The sky in ancient times

Curious about how the skies would have looked in ancient times? Sol's location relative to other stars changes over time- and thus, so does the appearance of the night sky. The constellations and asterisms (star formations smaller or other than the constellations) were very different long ago from what they are today.

Check out the contrasts here.

BTW, if you hop into your time machine and re-materialize back when dinosaurs ruled the earth, and it happens to be winter, don't look for the Pleiades. They will still be forming.

One of the implications of the changing sky is that the modern horoscope- based on sky charts first drawn many centuries ago- is by this time one whole sign of the Zodiac off in the location of the sun in any given month. Just one more reason why belief in the pseudo-science of astrology is so silly.